Bonjour issues preventing Apple TV from showing up in itunes?

After hours of trouble-shooting and trying out pretty much every fix suggested in this forum and others to make my brand new AppleTV show up in iTunes I think I found something useful. Apple TV uses the Bonjour protocol to make itself known to other systems on the local network. A utility called Bonjour browser shows all the multicasting services on the local network..and voila, AppleTV is broadcasting and showing up in the browser on my MacBook. Issue is, with the AppleTV broadcast I'm getting a "can't resolve link-local name" error message. In fact, I'm getting that error for every device listed in the Bonjour browser. Another tool that I read about in a blog (Bonjour Conformance Test) fails to complete the test (probing failure).
I know more about Bonjour now than I ever wanted to know but still feel completely clueless. Hey, these are APPLE products, this is supposed to be EASY Any ideas what's going on here?
DANKE!

I wouldn't worry about the 'can't resolve......' message, the fact that the browser application has seen the tv means that the tv is advertising it's services. Bonjour does nothing more than this, it does not enable or allow sharing, it merely advertises that a device can share.
It might be worth checking that itunes is also advertising it's sharing properly, you should be looking for something like itunes DAAP, which is the protocol itunes uses to share its library.
Moving on slightly, I recently did some tests and found that it is possible to stream to 3 tv's and 3 other macs from a single library, to cut a long story short, this doesn't fit in with my understanding of DAAP which limits sharing to 5 devices. My conclusion is that itunes doesn't use DAAP to share with the tv. If this is correct itunes needs to advertise another sharing service over bonjour specifically for the tv, so you should see another service advertised in the application you are using, let's say itunes-appletv, although it is likely something different.

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